“My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis.”

waltwhitman-i-am-with-you“I am with you” –Whitman w/butterfly

“My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis.” — Tomaz Salamun

In the ellipsis between now and then …

COMING UP – Amy’s Readings

Cadmium Text Series
17 January 2009 | The Gallery at R&F Paint | Hudson Valley, NY

Babylon Green Party
4 February 2009 | Pisces Cafe | Babylon, NY

wislawa-szymborska“Uncertainty is more beautiful still.” –Wislawa Szymborska

COMING UP – Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series

January 30 @ 7 p.m. – Stain Bar – Williamsburg, Brooklyn

*Bill Berkson, Cindy Cruz, Aaron Fagan, Jennifer Fortin, Jean-Paul Pecqueur and Bill Rasmovicz*

* Hosted by Amy King and Ana Bozicevic

laura-riding-poems“I do not doubt you.” – Laura Riding

THIS WEEK’S ADVICE COLUMN

Whenever you get the urge to go out and buy, or buy, or buy — head to the local cafe or bar, get yourself a strong coffee or glass of wine (invest the extra buck in the good stuff!), sit long and hard and keenly, swim far into the mind’s labyrinths, then put pen to Moleskin and make this world worth moving in! The brain does weird things, hence: poetry.

WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR

Emerging from this summer’s loins, our new baby: Weekend Press — promoting chapbooks all across this and other lands!

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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

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